Oh I'll do the memtest if I ever get to boot up again.
I formatted my drive, but vista won't install because it says "my computer's hardware my not support booting from disk. Ensure that booting from disk is enabled in bios".
Other times when i try and boot, but it doesn't even boot to the disk, but a floating box appears saying "video mode not supported".
When I try and boot from the XP disk (remember my drive is completely empty) it gives me a 0x7b error.
*leaves and runs over to his problem-PC to check bios cuz he just had an idea*
Yeah just as I thought. My drive was not even being seen by bios. I believe it was AHCI. I set it to IDE and now my disk drive and the HD are being seen.
I'm going to try and install xp again and see if that clears the 0x7b error.
Sorry about the flow of illogic. I'm pretty much at my wits end since if I can't get this fixed it means a good month using my bro's lappy.
*turns around to see if the 0x7b error occured during read of xp disk*
Hurray! no error. Wow...this is problem is probably the winner in longevity.
NOTE: Its still going...I mean after xp installs I still have to make sure that cleared the 0x124 (which apparently manifests differently for xp) and then run a memtest. On the memtest, does it really take 6 hours?